¹⁶ No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for ^[a]the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.

Sectarianism Is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ^(A)babes in Christ. ² I fed you with ^(B)milk and not with solid food; ^(C)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, ^(A)but you cannot bear them now.

¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

¹⁴ Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, ^[a]are able to endure, until I come to my lord ^(A)in Seir.”